Re: flexfax: faxsetup on Linux (bug in moduser?)

[Jonathan Chen <jonc@pinnacle.co.nz>]

On Mon, 10 Nov 1997, Ramana Juvvadi wrote:

> 
> On a related note, I ran into the following problem. On Redhat
> Linux (probably on other Linuxes as well) uucp has a userid
> of 10 and groupid of 14. The group wheel has the groupid of 10.
> 
> I saw that some files are created with a group of wheel, i.e.
> group id of 10. I think there is a bug in the code somewhere
> which mistakes user id with a group id. This may not have been
> detected on systems which has same user and group ids.

This isn't actually a bug, HylaFAX has its own user-id (via
.../fax/etc/hosts) system which it maps onto UNIX's by using the
gid. ie HylaFAX uid => UNIX gid
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